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There is also an equivocation of "true" at work... I think. During the set up, "true" means consistent with the rules of correct inference(coherence),...

Note that it is statements of thought/belief that are true in these cases. Disjunction combines a speaker's one belief with another statement that the...

Interesting charge. Am I the only one here using common sense? Gettier's case requires Smith to hold belief about Brown's location, for that is precis...

"The man" appears in Gettier's case. He changed Smith's belief. Your last post made different changes to Smith's belief. My post simply pointed out Sm...

I would agree that the ambiguity of language is a factor. More importantly however, in these cases the conceptual scheme(linguistic framework) is the ...

That's not a Gettier case.

You can't arrive at those percentages based upon the rules of disjunction.

The underlying issue, it seems to me, involves the undeserved trust placed in the notion of entailment. I suspect that that is due to not having a goo...

Recognizing that g, h, and i follow from f does not require belief that g, h, and i are true. One cannot believe that Brown is in three places at once...

Brown is in Boston. Brown is in Barcelona. Brown is in Brest-Litovsk. One cannot believe that all three of these are true. One can believe that one of...

There's a bit of irony here. Gettier's case requires that. g) Either Jones owns a Ford, or Brown is in Boston. (h) Either Jones owns a Ford, or Brown ...

If Smith doesn't know his own name, then so much for all of us assuming we're working with a rational/reasonable target.

They would always be wrong, unless you were in every place at once. You are skirting around the issue with disjunction though.

It's not inconsistent to believe that the rules of correct inference allow (g), (h), and (i), while not believing anything at all about Brown's wherea...

No. You're missing the point. Smith - himself - would not form belief about Brown's location. One cannot know they are ignorant about Brown's location...

That's not the reasoning I used. "Jones" is not equivalent to "the man". Changing the correlations that Smith draws is changing the meaningful content...

Accepting (f) isn't equivalent to believing that (f) is true. I've argued for this without subsequent refutation. Gettier starts with "accepts" and fi...

So, we now know that one of the participants in the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 is Russian, and is well-known for arranging computer hacking. Par...

Logic is a product of thinking about thought/belief. Get thought/belief right. Of course Gettier is working from the conventional notions/formulations...

Let me be clear, Smith could accept (e) if by that we mean that Smith could accept that (e) follows the rules of entailment. That is not the same as b...

No worries Srap... Smith wouldn't accept (e). That's precisely the sleight of hand. "The man" isn't equivalent to "Jones", and if Smith would generali...

Hey apo... I don't even bother attempting to build a bridge between those two camps. They both make the same mistake. They conflate reports of thought...

Nice context Srap. I'll take your word for who holds/says what. As I said earlier, I'm interested in what's being said. I'll talk in general terms... ...

There are other issues as well. I earlier mentioned the conflation of truth and meaning. Here it is... The thought above that is labeled as "The key W...

So, your argument against women having an abortion paid for by public assistance, is that it's your money, and since you are against abortions then yo...

Ok Srap. Point taken. I mean, I very well may have clearly attributed words to Dummett that were not his. I'll grant that much. The author, to me, doe...

Regarding who has the right to determine what a woman does with her own body, you wrote... Interesting. I'm guessing that by "my money" you're referri...

One who argues and/or consults with only oneself cannot possibly learn about their own mistakes. That takes an other. Hence, Plato's dialogues were mo...

It's in the OP Srap... Here it is again, for your convenience... I stand by my earlier reply, which is a re-iteration of my first analysis of the abov...

What part are you agreeing with Banno? Just curious.

Yet another person who wants to tell a woman what to do with her own body... Amazing.

X-) As long as all our priorities are in order...

Persuasion and/or coercion will happen(or not) regardless of our notions of mental states. I would agree that if we fully explore and respect other pe...

Where's the rational moral standard in all this?

I find it common for those who oppose abortion to also oppose public assistance for those in less fortunate socio-economic circumstances. If such peop...

I have tremendous respect for your intellect apo, and over the years hopefully I've given you enough reasons to reciprocate.

I do not reject statistics. Rather, I place them in proper perspective, particularly when one uses them to make claims that fall prey to a gross overg...

I want to say that the aforementioned (Western)distinction between reason and emotion is indeed fraught. However, I do not find that it is the problem...

There's something to be said about folk who wield power over others that they do not value and/or care about.

Use your definition. Are you opposed to subsidized healthcare?

Are you opposed to subsidized healthcare?

Are you opposed to government subsidized healthcare for those less fortunate?

The last bit of this is rather interesting to me personally. I know that there are many who think/believe that that type of pursuit leads to nowhere. ...

That is not true. If a religious person can live their lives according to their religious beliefs while not oppressing/coercing another, and they can,...

Isn't that about definitions/axioms/premisses? I'm not seeing the relevance to "for all else... redundancy..."

It's always easiest for an author to avoid facing the consequences stemming from a clear refutation of their position by misattributing meaning. Creat...

I don't follow this. Could you elucidate?

People from the same religion have different ways of life. We still have rational moral frameworks. It's less about tolerance and more about beginning...

What tools and means would those be - that we once had but no longer do? I presuppose nothing. To quite the contrary, I'm reporting upon what I've wit...

Just some random dude's opinion... X-) No citation necessary for those capable of critically thinking.